Understanding the Law for Physicians, Healthcare Professionals, and Scientists: A Primer on the Operations of the Law and the Legal System - 9781138483453

Cover -- Half Title -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Author -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Different Cultures, Different Lenses -- 1.1 A Line of Clash: Falsifiability and Propositions That Cannot Be Falsified -- 1.2 Some Harmonizing Elements -- 1.3 Ideology and Neutrality -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2: Various Approaches to Risk in the Legal System -- 2.1 Effects of Law on Innovation -- 2.2 The Precautionary Principle -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3: Institutional Background -- 3.1 Constitutions -- 3.2 Legislation -- 3.3 Courts -- 3.4 The Process -- 3.4.1 Common Law: Judge-Made Law -- 3.4.2 Reasoning by Analogy -- 3.4.3 Precedent -- 3.5 Distinguishing Cases -- 3.6 Adversary Procedure -- 3.7 What Is "Truth" for Lawyers? -- 3.8 The Role of Experts -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4: Regulation -- 4.1 The Institutional Background -- 4.2 Examples of Regulatory Statutes -- 4.3 Rationales for Regulation -- 4.4 Some Background on Representative Statutes -- 4.5 Recurring Issues for Safety Regulation -- Endnotes -- Chapter 5: Tort Law Generally -- 5.1 Defining Tort -- 5.2 Rationales of Tort Law -- 5.3 Products Liability -- 5.3.1 Theories of Liability -- 5.3.2 The Concept of Defect -- 5.3.3 Damages -- Endnotes -- Chapter 6: Information about Risk and Assumption of Risk -- Endnotes -- Chapter 7: Medical Malocurrences -- 7.1 The Standard of Care -- 7.2 Proving Violations of the Standard -- 7.3 Expert Testimony -- 7.4 Medical Consent -- Endnotes -- Chapter 8: The Duty/Proximate Cause Problem -- Endnotes -- Chapter 9: Scientific Evidence -- Endnotes -- Chapter 10: Tort Reform -- 10.1 Rhetoric and Results -- 10.2 Types of Laws -- Endnotes -- Chapter 11: Statutory Compensation Systems -- 11.1 Workers' Compensation -- 11.2 Traffic Injuries -- 11.3 Medical Injuries -- 11.4 Terror -- 11.5 Oil on the Water -- 11.6 Broad Scale Compensation Systems -- Endnotes

• | Author: Marshall S. Shapo
• | Publisher: Productivity Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 13, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 242 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138483451
• | ISBN-13: 9781138483453